Rick Broida

The blog Writer for Writers describes how to e-mail yourself a backup copy of any active OpenOffice.org document.

All you need is Email Backup, a new OpenOffice extension. Once it's installed, you click Tools > Add-Ons > Email Backup, then enter your preferred e-mail address. This saves you a few steps over OpenOffice's built-in Send Document as E-mail feature. Of course, we've long been proponents of the "e-mail backup" idea; check out the aptly named Backup to Email program for an application-agnostic solution that works with Gmail. — Rick Broida